The next meeting of the Avon group of the Royal Statistical Society will be on 28 March and will feature presentations from young statisticians working in the social sciences. There will be three talks: - "The effect of different incentive strategies in a national pilot study of the over-50s in Ireland", Mark Hanly (Dept of Economics, University of Bristol) - "Genetics and environment of intelligence sub-tests", Rebecca Pillinger (Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol) - "Using linked census and survey data to identify bias in measures of child's home background and the implications for school evaluation", Robert French (Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol) The meeting will be held at 2 Priory Road, University of Bristol. The talks will begin at 5pm, with tea/coffee from 4.30pm. Abstracts and a map can be found at <http://www.bris.ac.uk/cmm/research/rss-group/> The meeting is free and open to all. There is no need to register. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.